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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Socioemotional Selectivity"”.
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Career Calling in Older Adults: A Socioemotional Selectivity Perspective
… of older adult workers. Drawing on tenets of Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, the present study tested a model in which socioemotional motives and goal selection predict the attainment of calling, and occupational future time perspective was examined as a meaningful individual difference …
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The Unconscious Influence of Mortality Salience on Younger and Older Adults
… to thinking about one’s own death. Two theories, socioemotional selectivity theory and terror management theory, hypothesize how individuals cope with thoughts about the end of life. The present study attempted to extend past research by comparing older and younger adults’ responses to unconscious …
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What Contributes to Well-Being in Later Life? How Two Life-Span Perspectives Explain the Process
… optimization, and compensation (SOC) theory and socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) explain goal changes throughout life. Although these theories focus on different factors that led to goal changes and on different aspects of goals, both theories assert that people can achieve their goals, be …
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The influence of living a calling on work continuity intentions and the mediating effects of subjective age and occupational future time perspective
… employment. Drawing from continuity theory and socioemotional selectivity theory, it was hypothesized that the relationship between living a calling and these later career stage outcomes would be mediated by subjective age and occupational future time perspective (OFTP). The hypothesized …
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Making Connections: Understanding How Social Interaction Patterns Influence Work-related Outcomes for Individuals with Disabilities
… or negative outcomes.</p> <p>Drawing from socioemotional selectivity and social network theories I propose and test a theoretical model that examines the social interaction patterns of individuals with disabilities and an important work-related outcome: full utilization. Results from a …
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Exploring older men's social lives and well-being in the context of a coffee group
… relationships which supports the tenets of socioemotional selectivity theory (Carstenson et al., 2003) This group provides the men with a meaningful and effective way to engage in life, thus positively affecting their health and well-being. The coffee groups served as one strategy these men …
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Does working together increase flow with age?
… experience is influenced by age differences in socioemotional motives. In the first study, participants were asked to recollect their experiences during specific activities that varied with respect to social purpose (communal or agentic) and social context (with others or individual) and to rate …
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The Impact Of Age On Workplace Motivation: A Person-Centered Perspective
<p>The present study used the person-centered approach to examine how profiles based upon six different age conceptualizations differentially impact workplace motivation. In the first known study to examine all conceptualizations of age simultaneously, results suggested the age conceptualizations …